Zapier integration
1. What is Zapier?
Zapier provides an easy way to connect your Toolhouse agents to thousands of supported apps such as such as Slack, Gmail, Google Sheets, Notion, while allowing your agents to take actions within those apps on your behalf
Getting Started with Toolhouse and Zapier
In this guide, you’ll learn how to integrate Toolhouse with your Zapier workflows (Zaps). You can navigate here to get started with Toolhouse and here to get started with Zapier
Choosing a trigger
Triggers are how you start automations in Zapier. These can be events such as getting a new email, a daily event, or a new row in Google sheets.
In this example, the run is scheduled to trigger every hour.
Next, finish configuring your trigger by setting what time you want your automation to start
selecting whether you’d like it to run on weekends.
Connecting Toolhouse to Your Zap
Toolhouse nodes can act as conductors in your zaps. They can process and transform incoming data, perform web crawling to gather additional context, and execute custom logic before handing structured results to downstream steps.
Once you’ve finished testing your trigger, you can configure your Toolhouse node. Add a new step to your Zap and search for Toolhouse.
Click the Sign in button within the Account tab.
You’ll be redirected to a login page that looks like this:
Enter Your API Key
On the login page, you’ll be prompted to enter your Toolhouse API key.
You can find your API key in your Toolhouse dashboard under API Keys.
The API key page should look like this:
You can either copy and paste an existing key or generate a new one specifically for use with Zapier.
Once your Toolhouse account is successfully connected, it will appear under the Account dropdown in the Toolhouse event step.
Next, select an Action Event.
For this example, we’ll choose Send Agent a Message to send a message to a Toolhouse agent.
Configure Your Agent
Once you’ve selected an event, you can now configure your Toolhouse agent.
Choose the agent you want to use and fill in any required fields for the message.
Selecting an Agent
In the Agent dropdown, you'll see a list of all your existing Toolhouse agents.
Note: If you don’t have any agents yet, click this link to create a preconfigured agent for free.
Writing Your Agent Message
Next, specify the message you want to send to your agent. This is where you tell the agent what to do.
For this example, the agent is designed to classify tweets as positive, neutral, or negative.
So the message might be something like:
"Classify these Apple tweets by sentiment."
Once you’ve finished configuring the Toolhouse step, you can run a test to make sure everything is working as expected and that your agent returns the correct results.
Next Steps
Now that you’ve verified that your Toolhouse node works correctly, you can connect the output to other tools in your Zap. Toolhouse outputs can be mapped directly into downstream actions, enabling you to trigger notifications, store data, or kick off additional workflows.
Some common examples include Discord for sending messages or alerts, Slack for team notifications, Google Sheets for logging results, Notion for creating or updating records.
in this example, we’ll be connecting to our Discord server to schedule messages in certain channels. This way, your Toolhouse agent can act as a Discord bot.
Once you’ve finished connecting your Discord account to Zapier, you can choose the message the automation will send. Since we want to use the output from the Toolhouse agent, click the + icon in the Message Text field and select Agent Response.
Note: This step must come after the Toolhouse node so the agent’s response is available to use in the message.
This is how you can use outputs from your agents as inputs for actions in other apps. Once you’ve tested the output and verified that the message looks correct, click Publish to activate your Zap.
This is a good opportunity to review the output one final time before publishing and making your automation live.
Publish Your Zap
Once you hit Publish, your Zap will run on the schedule you configured.
You’ve now successfully integrated AI agents into your workflows using Toolhouse and Zapier!
If you don’t have an account yet, make one for free at https://join.toolhouse.ai/
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